News | Heart Valve Technology

June 11, 2019 — Abbott recently announced positive late-breaking data from its TRILUMINATE study of the company's ...

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Technology | Structural Heart Occluders

W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) premarket approval (PMA) of the Gore Cardioform ASD Occluder for the percutaneous closure of ostium secundum atrial septal defects (ASDs). The FDA approval was supported by data collected from the pivotal stage of the Gore ASSURED Clinical Study, which demonstrated 100 percent closure success at the six-month evaluation in patients with a successful implant.

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Technology | Virtual and Augmented Reality

Medivis announced that its augmented reality (AR) technology platform for surgical applications, SurgicalAR, has received 510(k) clearance for clinical use in the operating room by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The New York City-based medical technology company will commence the immediate commercialization of the platform in the United States.

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News | Cardiac Imaging

The Amsterdam University Medical Center has won MR Solutions’ Image of the Year 2019 award for the best molecular research image. Preclinical image submissions came in from most of MR Solutions’ users across the world. The winners, which were presented at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) conference, May 11-16 in Montreal, QC, Canada, were chosen by a panel of leading academics who examined images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) or computed tomography (CT) – or a combination of imaging modalities.

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News | Cardiac Diagnostics

Active duty Army personnel have worse cardiovascular health compared to people of similar ages in the civilian population, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Podcast | Radiation Dose Management

A discussion with Nicholas Bevins, Ph.D., vice chair, physics and research, and Jessica Harrington, RCIS. They explain ...

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News | Radiopharmaceuticals and Tracers

BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of Ben-Gurion University (BGU), introduced a novel method for producing radioisotopes for nuclear medicine and medical imaging technologies such as computed tomography (CT) scan and positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT).

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News | Computed Tomography (CT)

The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) will present the 2019 Gold Medal Award to Jonathon Leipsic, M.D., FSCCT, and Gilbert Raff, M.D., FSCCT, at the SCCT 14th Annual Scientific Meeting, July 11 – 14 in Baltimore. The SCCT Gold Medal Award recognizes outstanding leaders who have made landmark contributions to the field of cardiovascular computed tomography and to the society.

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News | Hypertension

Orchestra BioMed Inc. announced the presentation of two-year clinical data from the European Moderato I study of BackBeat Cardiac Neuromodulation Therapy (“BackBeat CNT”) for hypertension at the EuroPCR Conference, May 21-24 in Paris, France. Prof. Petr Neužil, M.D., Ph.D., CSc., FESC, head of the department of cardiology of Na Homolce Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, presented data which showed a strong safety profile of BackBeat CNT and its ability to immediately, substantially and chronically lower blood pressure in patients with persistent hypertension (office BP > 150 mmHg) despite two or more anti-hypertensive medications and an indication for a pacemaker.

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News | Heart Valve Technology

Royal DSM recently announced a collaboration with Strait Access Technologies (SAT), to develop the world’s first durable and cost-effective transcatheter replacement heart valves with polymeric leaflets.

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Technology | Angiography

Medis Medical Imaging Systems B.V. has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its QAangio XA 3D technology (QFR). The technology offers a non-invasive imaging technique for the assessment of the functional significance of coronary lesions without the need for a pressure wire, nor adenosine.

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News | Congenital Heart

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found higher blood pressure and pesticide exposures in children associated with a heightened pesticide spraying period around the Mother’s Day flower harvest. The study, published online in the journal Environmental Research,1 involved boys and girls living near flower crops in Ecuador.

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News | Vascular Access

Terumo Medical Corp. is recalling the SoloPath Balloon Expandable TransFemoral System and Re-Collapsible Balloon Access System due to a potential for the tip to dislodge from the outer rim of the sheath. This may result in a loss of the smooth transition from the surface of the tip to the outer surface of the expandable sheath.

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Podcast | Heart Valve Technology

Marvin Eng, M.D., structural fellowship director at Henry Ford Health System, and William O'Neill, M.D., director of the ...

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Podcast | Structural Heart

A discussion with William O’Neill, M.D., director of the Henry Ford structural heart program, Ruth Fisher, MBA, vice ...

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